Tuesday, 5 August 2014

When I think about designing and living
in my next home, I think of something on one level, maybe a studio walk
out with basement storage under, on a gently sloping acreage. So, I have
been starting to throw some ideas around...how the open living will
function and feel during different scenarios; family gatherings and
holidays, small dinner parties and also how it will feel when I am there by myself.

Living
in a smaller home means editing the things you have collected over the
years. It never means starting from scratch.

It's not something you jump into quickly, and I am enjoying the schematics of it all ;)

The Master Bedroom...Brent Comber Disk and Hudson Bay Blanket in a new setting. Heated concrete floors, white walls and millwork keep things modern and natural.

The Front of the Home - will either be horizontal fir or cedar. I like black framed windows and doors. To save some money, I may use clerestory windows above 6' 8 doors. Will definitely consider good outdoor lighting. The plan calls for a flat green roof, but I am thinking a shed roof to get 10' clgs on the glass side.

I think the Dining Room area will feel more open with leggy chairs...I may reconsider my slipcovers this time in lieu of a more open feel. Not sure about bookshelves...may go with 6 equally spaced canvases. I have had a love affair with Propeller Lighting's Mylocgic Chandelier...it's walnut with tiny LED's recessed. Skylights are necessary. I may need lots of them, with the grey light and overhang on the walkway/glass door wall.

2 comments:

Susan@RoomsthatWork
said...

Gorgeous renderings! It seems so perfect I half expect to be able to find it down some street. And I am heartened somehow that even after the cover of S@H you're imagining a new and different house. My husband's comment is, "Good grief, it's a disease!" So glad to know I'm not alone! I like the leggy dining chairs and linear light fixture. New technology demands new fixtures! At least that's my story! I look forward to more beautiful drawings from you!

It must be so much fun having the ability to draw out plans for what you imagine having one day. I try to describe things to my hubs on paper and he just laughs ~ hence why I take pictures instead ;-) I am loving the rocks that look like they are part of the architecture... something you would see in West Vancouver.